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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Rob R Dunn; Edward O Wilson |
| ISBN: | 9780061430305 0061430307 |
| OCLC Number: | 232977206 |
| Notes: | "Smithsonian Books." Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-264) and index. |
| Description: | xiv, 272 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Beginnings. What we all used to know. Common names. The invisible world -- Fogging (the tree of life). The apostles. Finding everything. Finding an ant-riding beetle -- Roots. Dividing the cell. Grafting the tree of life. Symbiotic cells on the seafloor. Origin stories -- Other worlds. Looking out. To squeeze life from a stone. The wrong elephant? What remains. |
| Responsibility: | Rob R. Dunn ; preface by E.O. Wilson. |
Abstract:
Traces the history of human discovery, from the establishment of classification in the eighteenth century to today's attempts to find life in space.
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